Steve Evans believed that Danny Rose's goal should have stood after his side's goalless draw with the U's.

Evans' side were having the better of the second half and Rose managed to scramble the ball over the line after 68 minutes, for the linesman to raise his flag.

And, having seen the video footage, the Mansfield boss said that the goal was "clearly onside."

“We should have won that,” he said.

“First half there’s nothing in the game. We were unhappy with our performance.

“We were never under any pressure but we never put any pressure on Cambridge to be fair. We never really got control of the ball.

“I told them to step it up and for a period of 25-30 minutes in the second half we got balls in the final third, but the end product wasn’t good enough. That’s what let us down.

“What’s also let us down is an assistant referee who called an offside wrong.

“Our analyst said it was close but when you go back in and look, it’s clearly onside.

“Danny wasn’t even level – he’s come from behind the defender. If we’d had VAR today, the goal would have stood. “They are the big decisions we’re not getting and don’t tend to get. At that period we were so dominant and it was quite staggering.

"We all make mistakes, but it’s a costly one.

“Then Conrad has had to make a save after the big fellow [Uche Ikpeazu] had smashed about five of my players with his forearm.